Even with ORMs like ActiveRecord, DataMapper which ease the pain of relational data storage, considerable developer effort goes into wrangling Ruby objects into their databases. Document-oriented databases have made it possible to store nested data structures that easily map to Ruby objects. Aqua (http://github.com/baccigalupi/aqua) is a new Ruby library that aims to painlessly persists objects, allowing developers to focus more on object oriented code and less on storage. Currently Aqua is in pre-alpha testing, with the following big things left to implement: A data query DSL and implementation; Support of all objects in the Standard Library; Class and code storage to allow the sharing and persistence of classes with their data.